Description: For sale is an original Associated American Artists drypoint etching by American Artist Margery Ryerson (1886 - 1989). This etching is called THE MINUET and is considered one of her better works in this medium. It features a brother and sister a practicing a performance on both the piano and violin. It’s a very poignantly illustration capturing the intense study of music by an adorable image of brother and sister rehearsing instruments. Publisher: Associated American Artists Artist: Margery Ryerson Date: 1930’s Signed: Lower right in pencil Condition: Good. Some toning. In original framing. Matting should be replaced with newer acid free materials Measurements Framed - 18 3/4” x 14 3/4 Sight - 10 1/2” x 9” Not Examined Out Of Frame Painter and print maker Margery Austen Ryerson was born in Morristown, New Jersey in 1886, and not only established a reputation as an artist but as an editor of one of the better-known books in American art, "The Art Spirit", which is a compilation of Ryerson's notes from the painting classroom of Robert Henri. She proposed the idea to Henri, and they worked together on the editing and completed the project for publication in 1923. One of the reasons the book was an attention getter was Henri's focus on encouraging artists to be free and unique in their expression, which in its era was a startling assertion. According to art historian Charlotte Rubinstein, "The Art Spirit ha become a classic, one of the most influenctial art books ever written in the United States." (167) Ryerson's two most influential painting teachers were Robert Henri and Charles W. Hawthorne, and for Hawthorne, she was editor of his book, "Hawthorne on Painting", similar in format to "The Art Spirit". Overall she specialized in paintings, etchings and lithographs of children. As a printmaker, she won the Emil Fuchs Prize in 1924 from the Brooklyn Society of Etchers. Her painting "Boy with Rabbit," 1960, in the collection of the New Jersey Historical Society, Newark, explores the rich color contrasts she responded to in a black child wearing a red pull-over sweater holding a white rabbit, his head against a pale rectangular chair-back, all contrasted against a strongly blue sky. Ryerson exhibited in Europe and in the United States at Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, Massachusetts; Grand Central Art Galleries, New York City, in 1942; and the Weyhe Gallery in New York City in 1973. She held memberships in the Provincetown Art Association, Massachusetts; California Printmakers; Society of American Etchers; Washington (D.C.) Watercolor Club; and Allied Artists of America, New York City. The work of Margery Ryerson is in the collections of the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.; Zimmerli Art Museum, New Brunswick, New Jersey; Cleveland Museum of Art; Brooklyn Museum; New York Public Library; Uffizi Gallery, Florence, Italy; and Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris, France. Margery Austen Ryerson died in 1989.
Price: 243.75 USD
Location: Kingston, New York
End Time: 2023-12-23T03:20:37.000Z
Shipping Cost: 20 USD
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Restocking Fee: No
Return shipping will be paid by: Buyer
All returns accepted: Returns Accepted
Item must be returned within: 14 Days
Refund will be given as: Money back or replacement (buyer's choice)
Features: Signed, Matted, Framed
Listed By: Artist
Material: Etching
Original/Licensed Reprint: Original
Date of Creation: 1900-1949
Subject: Children
Style: Realism
Size: Medium (up to 36in.)
Artist: Margery Ryerson
Print Surface: Paper
